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Well, yesterday I saw my surgeon to have my port taken out. I was a little nervous about the shot to numb the area and actually being awake when she cut in to remove the port, but I chatted about my day to distract myself from what was happening and I did fine. Glad that's over though! And now I finally feel like I can close the book on this ( Read more... )

As promised, here is my mermaid piece.


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Happy Earth Day! :) I bought the blu-ray of Avatar today, so guess what I'll be doing tonight! *grin ( Read more... )

I can't stop the photo-manips! lol This weekend was so much fun playing around with totally different genres and coloring - pure fantasy, gothic vampire and steampunk.


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I'm really enjoying these photo-manips! *grin* It's a combination of a scavenger hunt to find fantastic stock, and a puzzle in how to best put everything together. Then there's the painting of various parts to make it all look cohesive. Here's my newest..."Tranquility".


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I fought it for a while because of irrational prejudice, but I've finally embraced my photo-manip muse. ^_^ In my convalescence, I wanted to just do something fun and relaxing and I'm having a blast playing around with the stock on DeviantArt. Coming from a traditional artist background, I admit looking down at photo-manipulation as not a "true" ( Read more... )

Here's another piece that had been languishing undone on my hard drive for at least a year. I'm so glad to finally be completing these!

At dusk on Midsummer's Eve, a young woman has found the doorway to the realm of the Sidhe.


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More art - whoot! :) I have about half a dozen unfinished paintings I stopped working on for one reason or another and this is one that has languished for about a year untouched. I'm very happy to say my muse struck and she is now done!


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I'm trying to do at least one painting per month and I'm happy to say I'm two for two. *grin* Here's my newest piece, "Woodland Fae".


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